After reading Everything's a Function. I remembered another strange thing that I noticed about the ActionScript compiler and auto-formatting.

Auto-formatting in flash is totally broken and can completely ruin your code - so never use it. It's officially unusable as far as I'm concerned. I can dig up some code later and add it here... most people reading this probably know exactly what I'm talking about...

Anyway... one thing I've seen auto-formatting do is to remove the () after a class instantiation...

From this:

var s:Sprite = new Sprite();

to this:

var s:Sprite = new Sprite;

... and you would think the second one would break, but it doesn't - it works just fine.... very odd... to see it in action try this: